Leo Jogiches

Leo Jogiches (17 June 1867-10 March 1919) was a founding member of the Spartacist League of Germany.

Biography
Leo Jogiches was born on 17 June 1867 in Vilnius, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire to a family of Litvaks. In 1885 he became a leader of a revolutionary circle of Marxists and was arrested in 1888 and 1889 by the government for his socialist activism. He later fell in love with Rosa Luxemburg and had a relationship with her, and the two of them worked together for their socialist cause; Jogiches was the organizer while Luxemburg was the theorist. In 1919, after his love was murdered by the far-right Freikorps in Berlin, Jogiches was also murdered in Berlin while trying to investigate her death.